WHOOPS: People Think David Cameron Might Have Leaked A Hint About UK GDP

Reports out of the UK are speculating Prime Minister David
Cameron may have leaked the country's GDP figures a day in
advance.

The FT's Jim Pickard
writes that during the country's Prime Minister's Questions
session in Parliament today, Cameron said “more good news”
on the economy was imminent, and later adding "the good
news will keep coming.

London's FTSE 100 is up modestly on the day.

Pickard notes economists predict a reading of 0.7 percent growth,
meaning the UK would be out of recession.

The
Daily Telegraph's Rosa Prince
says the opposition Labour Party seized on the remarks,
accusing him of being "shambolic and wrong".

Some have also accused Cameron of breaking the law, she
says,

A Treasury source denied the accusations.

"That [the GDP figures] certainly wasn't what he was
referring to," the source, who was not identified, said.

Cameron is among a select group of officials who have
access to the figures 24 hours before they are officially
released.